Word: elkinses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The inscription over the door of the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Room, in Widener Library, will shortly be removed and replaced by a new one in memory of Mrs. A. Hamilton Rice, Keyes DeW. Metcalfe, director of the library, said yesterday.
Mrs. Rice, the former Eleanor Elkins Widener, and mother of Harry E. Widener, died in Paris on July 11, 1937. She was the donor of the present structure in the Yard.
In the presence of a throng of about 250 spectators the impressive ceremonies connected with the laying of the cornerstone of the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial were held yesterday morning. At 11.10 o'clock Mrs. Widener and Mrs. Lowell, accompanied by President Lowell, and Professor A. C. Coolidge '87, entered...
This collection that was so infinitely precious to him is coming by his desire to the University from which he had graduated not five years before. It will remain as a memorial of his love for his College in the centre of the superb edifice which will henceforth bear his...
The library of John Harvard cannot be preserved with the library of Harry Elkins Widener. We may, however, indulge the hope that as long as scholarship and learning are honored, and the wisdom of the past is cherished, the endless generations of future scholars will seek this spot and recall...